Group 1 - The CEO of Prosus, Fabricio Bloisi, stated that the company has "at least $10 billion" available for investment [1] - Prosus aims to strengthen its position in the global online food delivery sector and plans to expand its e-commerce and payment businesses [1] - The company is prepared to pursue more acquisition activities in India and sees significant growth opportunities in Latin America [1]

This is actually a REALLY big move from Coinbase.Invoicing directly from coinbase business accounts.Payment via stablecoins && easy payment options for it all.Coinbase is REALLY going after the entire finance stack with these announcements.From user to business and every step inbetweenEasy (@EasyEatsBodega):Companies and Businesses can now leverage accounts directly with Coinbase.Coinbase Business was released in Beta earlier this year.1,600 companies using it today.Today, Coinbase Business is no longer in ...

🔥 In a debate with @PeterSchiff, @cz_binance shares a story from a Binance user in Africa:"Before crypto, before bitcoin, it takes him three days to pay a bill...now paying the bill is three minutes." https://t.co/Re5NONV0Im ...

Regulatory Approval - Ripple's Singapore subsidiary receives approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore to expand and enhance regulated payment activities [1] Business Expansion - The approval allows Ripple to expand and enhance its payment activities under its Major Payment Institution license in Singapore [1]

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And a lot of um centralized exchanges, they're heading towards payment. >> I think right now it's a perfectly competitive market. No one has any innovation on products and where everyone charges the same fee.And so it's a it comes down to marketing. It's very difficult to stay in the the centralized exchange game. Especially if you're in the US and now you're going to have all the banks offering the same brokerage services.So I think it's going to be very tough for the Coinbases and Krakens of the world to ...

Conversational Commerce & AI - Conversational commerce, facilitated by generative AI, is poised to become a significant channel for transactions, complementing existing online and physical commerce [3][4][9] - Visa views the agentic era as the next evolution of commerce, emphasizing autonomy and personalization through better data and improved user identification [5][6] - The key to success lies in personalization and context, leveraging LLMs to understand user preferences and connect them to the outside world [13][14] - Visa is focused on ensuring that Visa cards work seamlessly within these new platforms, regardless of what consumers are buying, from whom, and where [30] - Visa is exploring how personalization, with consumer consent, can enhance the discovery process by leveraging spending preferences to provide more relevant recommendations [31][36][37] Security & Fraud Prevention - Visa is prioritizing security in agentic commerce by implementing high authentication measures, biometric authentication, and payment instructions to minimize fraud [45][47][48] - Visa is developing the Trusted Agent Protocol to differentiate between good and bad bots in the e-commerce infrastructure, enabling merchants to provide better experiences to legitimate agents [57][59][60] - Visa is actively monitoring agentic transactions to identify patterns and behaviors, allowing for continuous improvement in fraud prevention and dispute resolution [48][49][51] Market Trends & Future Outlook - Visa has observed a 1,200% increase in agentic traffic to merchant websites, which has further quadrupled in the last 5 months, indicating growing consumer interest [67] - Visa anticipates statistically relevant data on agentic commerce within approximately 6 months, which will provide insights into adoption rates and inform product development [53] - Visa believes agentic commerce will be transformative for the payments industry, driven by increased traffic and the conversion of discovery into actual purchases [66][69]

Flutterwave x Polygon: Powering Africa's Next Payment FrontierLive with @sandeepnailwal, @tkstanczak, and @TechProd_Archhttps://t.co/KonNT8R0bM ...

Industry Adoption - Western Union joins Paypal, Fiserv, and other payment giants building on Solana [1] - Major payments incumbents need a chain that isn't owned by a single BigTechCo; they need neutral rails, scale, and trust, which Solana provides [1] Solana's Advantages - Solana offers neutral, trusted, global infrastructure that scales to millions [1] - Solana doesn't require a specialty Layer 1 (L1) [1]

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